What Happened on May 11, 2002

Historical Events

Cats

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" (based on poetry by T. S. Eliot) directed by Trevor Nunn, closes at the New London Theatre in the West End, London, after 8,949 performance

Poet, Author and Nobel Laureate T. S. Eliot

Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.

Events in 2002

Famous Deaths

Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mafioso & crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, dies of heart failure at 97
Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator, dies at 90

Died in 2002 2002 Highlights